Classics
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Neal Bell, adapted from the novel by Horatio AlgerDescription
Journalist Dick Hunter sets out to document the slums of 1890's New York where he discovers harrowing conditions of poverty and abuse.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
The famous long-nosed hero returns home to Italy a changed man after the experience of his success in Hollywood and America.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
Richard Nelson uses the familiar tale of Rip Van Winkle as the basis for his epic study of American agrarian reform, the Industrial Revolution, and the labor movement.
Production Info
Cast: 22 total (7 female, 15 male)
Full Length Drama (about 210 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Spalding Gray, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
Famously astute observer of everyday life, Spalding Gray receives a Chekhov short story in the mail, leading him into a monologue that confronts the fears that beset us... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Comedy (about 25 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
William Shakespeare, adapted by Nina ShengoldDescription
The most famous love story of all time has been edited from Shakespeare's text for a cast of five, and with a running time of seventy-five minutes.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
Considered one of Ibsen's masterpieces, ROSMERSHOLM is the story of Johannes Rosmer, a former clergyman and owner of the estate Rosmersholm... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Arthur Schnitzler, adapted by Eric BentleyDescription
Eric Bentley's adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's classic LA RONDE.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (5 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Eric BentleyDescription
Eric Bentley's gay adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's LA RONDE set in 1970's New York.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Oscar Wilde, translated by Matt DiCintioDescription
Inspired by symbolist poetry and the frequent appearance of Salomé in contemporary art and literature, Oscar Wilde wrote SALOMÉ in French during a Paris stay in 1891–92... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 17 total (2 female, 15 male, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Molière, translated and adapted by Matt DiCintioDescription
When two misers return from abroad, their sons find their romances with two mysterious women in peril... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
"It's a comedy with three female and six male roles, four acts, a landscape (view of a lake), lots of talk of literature, little action and 180 lbs of love... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (6 female, 7 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Emily Mann, freely adapted from Anton Chekhov's THE SEAGULLDescription
Emily Mann brings Chekhov's masterpiece into the 21st century with bright contemporary language and a modern Hamptons' setting... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Carlo Goldoni, adapted by Constance CongdonDescription
Goldoni's eighteenth-century masterpiece is an enduring story of love, passion, and mistaken identity... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (3 female, 10 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 115 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Evgeny Shvarts, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
In an imaginary, fantastical land a scholar arrives seeking to find a way to make as many people as he can happy.
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (5 female, 11 male, doubling possible, many bit parts)
Full Length Comedy (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Pierre Carlet de Marivaux, translated from French by Laurence SenelickDescription
SLAVE ISLAND was first produced on Monday, 5 March 1725 by Lelio Riccoboni's troupe and the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, Paris... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, nonspeaking roles)
Full Length Comedy (about 50 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes